In my first post I made clear I wouldn't want to trade ergonomics for cost.
IF there were a way to make the mags drop free,and the BHO to work I say maybe depending on cost.Drop free and BHO to me on a modern fighting tool is a must.Don't get me wrong I would not feel unsafe with my AK,but given a choice ergos win everytime.
The point I was making, in my second post was that in order to stock up on a descent supply of magazines,your looking at quite a bit more investment.I don't just buy one magazine for my rifles and if you do $30 bucks ain't bad but If I want 30 magazines,I'm knocking on the door of the cost of the rifle itself.The point I think some of you guys fail to realize is that we all don't pull down $100,000 a year but still want a quality weapon.We just have to do it more incrementally.I also didn't mean the cost of the mags are out of line for them considering the r&d and low production.
I'm no engineer,but I'm almost certain you could make a BHO work with an AK mag,The drop free on the other hand,I doubt ,but that's for people smarter than me to figure out.I'm sure if Alex could have made it work,he would have MAYBE offered it as an option.As far as AK or HK or P-mag superiority,you give me a cheapass Romanian AK mag and I will use it to pound the other two to dust,then put it bad in the rifle and it will fire,try that with just about any other magazine.It it better in every respect,NO! I know that,but it is what it is,reliable as hell,and damn near indestructible.